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Antarctic Ice Shelf Sheds Bergs

A crack across the Nansen Ice Shelf has broken, shedding two icebergs—one large enough to earn the name C33.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 13, 2016
Data acquired April 7, 2016

Source:
Terra > MODIS